The Big 6 Restorative Poses — a gift of self-love
All of life is a journey. We are carried along at life’s pace, whether we choose to run or sit still. Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Hunters of Dune The first half of my life, I spent my time…
Love Everybody!
Can you imagine a world where everyone is loved and loving? Now, can you imagine yourself loving everyone? Did your thoughts go to that one person in your life who is difficult to love and who possibly is not loving…
Detachment is Not Indifference
Although most western-culture dictionaries treat detachment and indifference as synonyms, they have a crucial difference. Their common element — non-reaction — is paralleled by indifference’s additional qualities — coldness, passionlessness, lack of feeling/sympathy. I thought my friend Chris said it…
The Critical Path to Foundation, Flow and Freedom — Part IV: Creative Expression
Several weeks back, I began writing this four-part series in an attempt to describe a critical path for expanding one’s creative and spiritual growth. Over many years of personal research, my experiences taught me that creativity and spirituality are intimately interwoven. In fact, I often wonder if we are using two different words to describe the same “way of being.” This series of blogs dabbles at demystifying our human “being-ness” by outlining four foundational pillars that liberate creativity — awareness, deep-felt experience, deep collaboration and finally, this blog’s topic, creative expression.
On Being Human — Joy is An Inside Job
In last week’s blog, I wrote about the five layers that comprise a human being — physical, energetic, mental/emotional, spiritual and joyful (my label). Much of my discourse focused on human energy, that invisible but felt experience of life force,…
ACE Your Life — Alleviate Compulsive Experiences
Image by Dan In my past 30 years of personal growth, it became obvious that transforming fear into joy first meant relinquishing my addictions. Or, as Dr. Daniel Sumrok states, abandoning my ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking. When thought of as comfort…
Mindfully Cultivating Confidence
At various times in our lives, each of us experiences the feeling we could do anything we desire. It’s a powerful and uplifting sensation, so much so, we can usually recall the last time we felt this way. Conversely, we…
Tipping from Confusion into Certainty
When was the last time you experienced confusion? We all know that feeling of not being able to move forward on a project or make a decision to act. Maybe we are racked with self-doubt or simply lacking the knowledge…
What Meditation Taught Me
I began my meditation practice in 1992, almost 30 years ago. Without question, meditation was and is instrumental in transforming my thoughts, feelings, words and actions. I have more mental, physical and creative energy in this second half of…
Plan, Design, Do or Is Trusting the Process Enough?
With so much of our global experience made visible on a daily basis, I think we can all agree on one thing — life, as we experience it today, is complex. But is this the natural way of things or…
Reflect & Redirect — From Doing to Undoing
Each January, in order to take stock of how I am choosing to live my life, I take time to reflect on the past and present, and potentially redirect myself for the future. At this time last year, I sensed…
Integration — Complementary Skills for Meaningful Change
This blog is one of a three-part series on the health impacts of integration (wholeness) in our self-esteem, relationships and ability to enact meaningful change in our lives. Each of us is the next step in evolution along the lineage…